Surrealismo: subversão e encantamento em Portugal [Surrealismo: sovversione e incanto in Portogallo]

The principles that motivated the set of surrealist actions in general and, more specifically, those Portuguese, were the defense of love, freedom from and poetry. Partially the literary criticism was able to see timeless values ​​until, only more recently, could better observe the permanence of its action as an inspiring gesture within a longer diachronic period. This article seeks to verify the relevance of a deeper understanding of the Portuguese surrealist movement in its drifts in a transnational scope.